Evensong News

We wish you all a blessed Christmas! Here are a couple of songs to share in the celebration throughout the Twelve Days:

Sing a New Song (Acclamation for All Seasons) (pdf) - an acclamation in parts, with texts for Christmas, Easter and Pentecost

Born in Human Likeness (pdf and mp3) - a simple round for the season and throughout the year, from our album This is the Day

Once the rush to Christmas Eve is over, we do our best to hunker down and enjoy some holiday time through the Twelve Days. We hope you can as well!

Enjoy! We would appreciate it if you would ensure the full copyright credits are included on any copies you make, and if you have a license from www.licensingonline.org, please record any songs of ours which you use in worship to help support us in our music making. You can also make a donation anytime for the use of our music, as you see fit, by clicking on the Pay Now button on our MelodicArts sales page, or search through our full catalogue of pdfs, mp3s, CDs and songbooks. Thanks for supporting our ministry!

Once every three years in the lectionary cycle we hear the story of the angel appearing to Joseph of Nazareth, telling him to take Mary as his wife and to raise the holy child, Jesus, as his own son. So why not celebrate Joseph this Sunday? Here's a song to help get the party started:

"God is with us, Emmanuel" (pdf) - a simple and lively SATB refrain with solo verses

And if you're reading Psalm 80 as well, here's a sung refrain to share:

Enjoy! We would appreciate it if you would ensure the full copyright credits are included on any copies you make, and if you have a license from www.licensingonline.org, please record any songs of ours which you use in worship to help support us in our music making. You can also make a donation anytime for the use of our music, as you see fit, by clicking on the Pay Now button on our MelodicArts sales page, or search through our full catalogue of pdfs, mp3s, CDs and songbooks. Thanks for supporting our ministry!

The Third Sunday of Advent is when we traditionally hear the Magnificat (Luke 1:46b-55), the ancient song that Mary sings when she learns she is to bear the Christ child. The radical nature of this text is often lost on churches in Europe and North America, but that's because it truly is good news for the poor, a radical call to turn the tables on the world order.

What would happen in our world if we truly tried to live the ethos of the Magnificat, with its call to "lift up the lowly" and "bring down the mighty," "to fill the hungry with good things" and "send the rich empty away"? If those of us in the West can see ourselves for what we are, the global rich, then maybe we can understand our role in enslaving people around the world to support our lifestyle, with our Walmart ways and corporate culture. So sing on, Mary! Sing a new way of being into our hearts again in this Advent season!

Here are two of our settings of portions of the Magnificat:

"Magnificat" (pdf) - a lively SAB setting of the opening of the Latin version of the text

"My soul sings" (pdf) - an SATB setting of a new paraphrase of the Magnificat, with solo verses

We would appreciate it if you would ensure the full copyright credits are included on any copies you make, and if you have a license from www.licensingonline.org, please record any songs of ours which you use in worship to help support us in our music making. You can also make a donation anytime for the use of our music, as you see fit, by clicking on the Pay Now button on our MelodicArts sales page, or search through our full catalogue of pdfs, mp3s, CDs and songbooks. Thanks for supporting our ministry!

We would appreciate it if you would ensure the full copyright credits are included on any copies you make, and if you have a license from www.licensingonline.org, please record any songs of ours which you use in worship to help support us in our music making. You can also make a donation anytime for the use of our music, as you see fit, by clicking on the Pay Now button on our MelodicArts sales page, or search through our full catalogue of pdfs, mp3s, CDs and songbooks. Thanks for supporting our ministry!